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Member#: 484 Location: Worcester Registered: 27-12-2003 Diary Entries: 4
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24th October 2022
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: WSW Wind Stength: 5/20 Surf / Sea State: river chop Air Temperature: 17 Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 18.79 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 31.75 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Monday 24th October - Windsurf *** - River Orwell at Levington – sunny
periods.
Foil – 18.79 knot max, 17.28 knot ave., 9.69 knot hour, 14.35 knot mile,
50.85 km., 15.15 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham
Vulcan 6m.
I was tempted by a trip to Point Clear as I haven’t been there for many
months but I am not keen on travelling these days, also being half term,
the lagoon might have been busy so I decided once again to stay local
heading over to the marina at Levington. With high water just before midday
I headed over fairly early arriving just past nine, there was loads of
water and a good breeze blowing cross on from the right. The foil board was
soon on the beach now all I had to do was rig a sail? In the end I went for
6m which proved OK when the wind was up but once again it was pretty
patchy:( Robert had now arrived and was rigging his 5.3 as I set off and
got some nice gusts straight away but the wind direction was not great
today, SW is a good direction here meaning you can do nice long runs down
towards Pin Mill but there was a touch of west in it which usually makes it
gusty. You ran out of wind if you headed down towards Felixstowe docks so I
sailed the other way, beating upriver towards Pin Mill but it was fairly
lumpy and you had to wait for a gust sometimes but I tried to gybe when the
wind was up and did nearly 90 gybes in the session, only ending in the
water once, it is great fun turning a foil especially when using a small
sail:) I ran out of wind towards Pin Mill so headed back getting some nice
broad runs back to the corner. With the tide now turned the wind filled in
for a bit doing some nice runs diagonally getting loads of gybes in the
sun:) I had been out nearly 3 hours when the wind eased again so I headed
back, pack up, shower and head for home. There was a nasty incident on the
way home at the new roundabout in Trimley at the new estate by the Academy
where a lorry had run over a cyclist, it did not sound good as we all had
to turn round! I am just hoping nobody is seriously hurt!
The wind is looking marginal tomorrow but Wednesday is looking promising:)
PS - update about the road accident, sadly there a loss of life :(
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